Hide leading stars in helm-org-in-buffer-headings

Question

Currently, when I run helm-org-in-buffer-headings in see something like this:

* main topic 1
** Subtopic 1.1
** Subtopic 1.2
*** Sub-subtopic 1.2.1
* main topic 2

I would like to hide the leading stars and remove the indentation, so that instead, what you see is this:

main topic 1
Subtopic 1.1
Subtopic 1.2
Sub-subtopic 1.2.1
main topic 2

Any ideas?

jagrg · Answer 1 · 2019-02-22T10:31:32.533

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You can hide the first N-1 stars by setting org-hide-leading-stars to a non-nil value, although it will still keep the headlines indented.

You can also tweak helm-org-startup-visibility to remove all stars and headline indentation:

(with-eval-after-load "helm-org"
  (defun helm-org-startup-visibility (candidates _source)
    (setq-local indent-tabs-mode t)
    (cl-loop for i in candidates
         collect
             (cons
              (with-helm-buffer
        (org-indent-remove-properties-from-string
         (replace-regexp-in-string "^\\(\\**\\)\\(\\* \\)" "" (car i))))
              (cdr i)))))

edited Feb 22 '19 at 10:31

answered Feb 21 '19 at 11:51

jagrg

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Thanks. I use org-indent-mode currently. I am really looking to remove the leadin stars and the indentation. – Adam Feb 21 '19 at 16:59
I updated the answer. See if that works for you. – jagrg Feb 21 '19 at 21:53
I updated the answer again to make it work with org-indent-mode. – jagrg Feb 22 '19 at 09:54

Hide leading stars in helm-org-in-buffer-headings

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